The Story of Everything: A Synopsis of The Urantia Book

Paper 6: The Eternal Son

The Eternal Son is the original
Son of God, the Second Person of Deity, and the Second Great Source
and Center. The Son is the spiritual center of the universe government
and the personal manifestation of God the Father in the universe. The
Son co-creates with the Father and shares the sonship experience with
all other created beings; he loves us as both father and brother. Mercy
is the essence of the Eternal Son's spiritual character. He reveals

All spiritual beings are responsive to
the drawing power of the Eternal Son. He is omnipotent in the spiritual
realm. Although the Son does not personally function in the physical
domains, his omnipresence constitutes the spiritual unity and cohesion
of all creation. The spirit of the Eternal Son is with us and around
us, but not within us as is the Thought Adjuster. The indwelling Father
fragment adjusts the human mind to divine attitudes, and such a mind
becomes increasingly responsive to the spiritual drawing power of the
Son.

Personality is the exclusive gift of the
Universal Father. The Son gives origin to a vast spirit host, but he
creates personality only in conjunction with the Father or the Conjoint
Creator. The Son's personality is divine and absolute; it cannot be
fragmented. The spirit fragment of the Father dwells within us, the
spirit of the Son surrounds us, and the two forever work as one for
our spiritual advancement.

The Eternal Son is spirit and has mind,
but not a spirit or mind which mortal mind can comprehend. The kind
of mind that allies with spirit is not comparable to either material
mind or mind that coordinates matter and spirit. The Son's mind is unlike
any other in the universe except the Father's.

The Eternal Son is wholly spiritual. Since
mortals are nearly entirely material, human understanding of the Son
must await attainment of increased spiritual insight. The Son is a merciful
minister, a divine spirit, and a spiritual power and personality. The
Son is the sum of the First Source and Center, divested of all which
is nonpersonal, extra-divine, nonspiritual, and purely potential.

As God is the Universal Father, the Son
is the Universal Mother. The Father and Son are separate individuals,
but in the administration of the universes they are so interrelated
that it is not always possible to distinguish between them. God is the
initiating thought and the Son is the expression, the Word. The Father
is the bestower of human personality; the Son is the pattern of mortal
personality attainment; the Spirit is the source of the mortal mind.

The Son is approachable through his Paradise
Sons and through the patient ministry of the creatures of the Infinite
Spirit. Throughout the local universe experience, a Creator Son will
compensate for the inability of mortals to appreciate the significance
of the Eternal Son in Paradise. As we progress toward Paradise, we will
enjoy an ever-enlarging comprehension of the Eternal Son.